Decrease and Death

noun

• A change downward.
  • usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
  • synonyms: lessening, drop-off
• A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The amount by which something decreases.
  • synonyms: decrement
• The act of decreasing or reducing something.
  • synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

verb

• Decrease in size, extent, or range.
  • usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
  • synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
• Make smaller.
  • usage: "He decreased his staff"
  • synonyms: lessen, minify

• (v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
• (v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
• (n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
• (v.) The wane of the moon.

noun

• The event of dying or departure from life.
  • usage: "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren"
  • synonyms: decease, expiry
• The permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism.
  • usage: "the animal died a painful death"
• The absence of life or state of being dead.
  • usage: "he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life"
• The time when something ends.
  • usage: "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes"
  • synonyms: dying, demise
• The time at which life ends; continuing until dead.
  • usage: "she stayed until his death"; "a struggle to the last"
  • synonyms: last
• The personification of death.
  • usage: "Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city"
• A final state.
  • usage: "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end"
  • synonyms: end, destruction
• The act of killing.
  • usage: "he had two deaths on his conscience"

• (v.i.) Cause of loss of life.
• (v.i.) Danger of death.
• (v.i.) Murder; murderous character.
• (v.i.) Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
• (v.i.) Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
• (v.i.) Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
• (v.i.) Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
• (v.i.) Loss of spiritual life.
• (v.i.) The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.